The Role of Homegardens for Food and Nutrition Security in Uganda

Whitney, Cory; Luedeling, Eike; Hensel, Oliver; Tabuti, John R. S.; Krawinkel, Michael B.; Gebauer, Jens; Kehlenbeck, Katja

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“…House gardens or plots require sufficient water, thus household water insecurity may reduce the benefits of agricultural activities on mitigating food insecurity (Tesfamariam, Owusu‐Sekyere, Emmanuel, & Elizabeth, ; Whitney et al, ). For example, based on surveys in 120 households across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, food insecurity was mostly profound in the zones of <700 mm annual rainfall; the implied mechanism has reduced crop yields and failures (Rufino et al, ).…”

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Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

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Workman

Wutich

et al. 2019

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives: Food and water insecurity have both been demonstrated as acute and chronic stressors and undermine human health and development. A basic untested proposition is that they chronically coexist, and that household water insecurity is a fundamental driver of household food insecurity. Methods: We provide a preliminary assessment of their association using crosssectional data from 27 sites with highly diverse forms of water insecurity in 21 lowand middle-income countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas (N = 6691 households). Household food insecurity and its subdomains (food quantity, food quality, and anxiety around food) were estimated using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale; water insecurity and subdomains (quantity, quality, and opportunity costs) were estimated based on similar self-reported data. Results: In multilevel generalized linear mixed-effect modeling (GLMM), composite water insecurity scores were associated with higher scores for all subdomains of food insecurity. Rural households were better buffered against water insecurity effects on food quantity and urban ones for food quality. Similarly, higher scores for all subdomains of water insecurity were associated with greater household food insecurity. Conclusions: Considering the diversity of sites included in the modeling, the patterning supports a basic theory: household water insecurity chronically coexists with household food insecurity. Water insecurity is a more plausible driver of food insecurity than the converse. These findings directly challenge development practices in which household food security interventions are often enacted discretely from water security ones.

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Section: How Might Household Water Insecurity Exacerbate Food Insecurmentioning

confidence: 99%

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Brewis

Workman

Wutich

et al. 2019

American J Hum Biol

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“…The plants used as vegetable (218 use-reports) were cited most frequently in the home gardens in the present study. The edible plants could provide carbohydrates, proteins, vegetable oil, vitamins and minerals [3,45,46,9]. Our previous study in Yunnan province of China showed that the edible plants in home gardens and wild could help people to ght against famine [47].…”

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“…Thus, investigating home gardens was regarded as an effective way to understand the biodiversity related local knowledge and culture of native people in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. In remote areas, the plants in home gardens are important sources of plant products such as foods, herbal medicines and bers to support daily lives [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Some previous studies in less developed areas indicated that most of the nutrients of local people, such as Vitamins and minerals, were from the vegetables and fruits in home gardens [3,9].…”

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“…In remote areas, the plants in home gardens are important sources of plant products such as foods, herbal medicines and bers to support daily lives [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Some previous studies in less developed areas indicated that most of the nutrients of local people, such as Vitamins and minerals, were from the vegetables and fruits in home gardens [3,9]. In home gardens, the plant products which were rich in starch can help local people to ght against famine in remote areas [9][10][11][12][13].…”

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“…Some previous studies in less developed areas indicated that most of the nutrients of local people, such as Vitamins and minerals, were from the vegetables and fruits in home gardens [3,9]. In home gardens, the plant products which were rich in starch can help local people to ght against famine in remote areas [9][10][11][12][13]. Therefore, home garden is important in less developed and remote areas.…”

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The Best Choices: the Diversity and Functions of the Plants in the Home Gardens of the Tsang-la (Motuo Menba) Communities in Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, Southwest China

ZHANG

Yang

et al. 2020

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Abstract Background: Home garden is identified as a kind of small-scale land-use system which is used to manage and cultivate useful plants by local people, and home gardens can provide various plant products and services. Investigating home gardens was regarded as an effective way to understand the biodiversity related local knowledge and culture of native people in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. Home garden is important in less developed and remote areas. The grand canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo is designed as one of the biodiversity hotspots of China, and it is one of the most remote region of China, because of the rough traffic conditions. The aim of the present study is to collect, record and document the plants and their local knowledge and functions in the local home gardens, then attempt to answer the question:“why local people selected these plants?” Material and Methods: The study area was in Beibeng Township of Motuo County in the grand canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo. Observation and semi-structure interviews with informed consent were used to collect data in field study. All information was collected and organized, then documented based on “ethno-species” as a fundamental unit. All of the information of local use and knowledge were organized as the list of “use-report” for quantitative analysis, and the local uses of plants were merged into 14 use categories. Frequency of citation (FC), relative frequency of citation (RFC), Cultural importance index (CI) and Cultural value index (CV) were used in quantitative analysis. Besides, the Jaccard Index was used to compare the similarity in plant species selection among different communities. Results: A total of 78 home gardens in the nine communities of Beibeng Township were visited, and 196 ethno-species were collected. These ethno-species were identified into 188 Botanical taxa. A total of 87 home garden owners as informants were interviewed in the present study, and they provided 625 use-reports to us. The top five important plants were Su-lan-tsao (Dendrobium nobile), Sa-ga (Zingiber officinale), Soe-lu (Capsicum annuum), Snying-pa (Citrus medica) and Kham-pu (Prunus persica), according to the quantitative analysis. The most citied use-category was “vegetable”, followed by “Ornamental plant”, “medicine” and “fruit”. The altitude might be the most important impact factor of the plant diversity and composition of home gardens, and the traffic conditions, local terrain, was also impact the plant diversity and composition of home gardens. Conclusion: In remote areas such as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, the plants in home gardens are important sources of plant products such as foods, herbal medicines and fibers to support daily lives. The local home gardens in Tsang-la communities had high diversity of plants, and these plants provided many functions and services to support daily lives of local people. Local plant knowledge, including the features, life forms, habits, habitats and use values of plants, were the summary of the understanding of local people to their surrounding plant worlds. Local people selected appropriate plants to cultivate and manage in their home gardens under the guidance of the local plant knowledge. That is the answer to the question “why local people selected these plants?”

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The Role of Homegardens for Food and Nutrition Security in Uganda

Cited by 35 publications

References 41 publications

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

The Best Choices: the Diversity and Functions of the Plants in the Home Gardens of the Tsang-la (Motuo Menba) Communities in Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, Southwest China

Contribution of Smallholder Tree Growers to Increasing Tree Cover in Kaliro District

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